The Tao emblem condensed from thick smoke was still hovering above his head, and Mou Xuan's tactical dagger had already picked open the rusty door bolt.
Chen Yao poured the last tube of nano-silver liquid into the meat grinder's pressure relief valve. Amid the metallic wailing, the light golden liquid meandered along the cracks in the wall into a glowing stream.
"The ice is swallowing up the blood." Member Lu suddenly raised the thermal imaging device. The vital signs area on the screen, which should have been bright red, was strangely fading to ice blue. "The temperature curve of the entire west wall is exactly the same as the cooling curve of the champagne tower at the celebration banquet three days ago."
Mou Xuan crushed the ice with the tip of his boot and wiped the solidified image on the blade with his fingertips.
The corners of the white coat figure's clothes were clearly embroidered with blue ripples in the same frequency as the cold storage gears. "Twelve o'clock, seven steps away." He suddenly swung out the dagger, and the handle accurately stuck into the groove where gold was seeping from the crack in the wall.
The entire concrete wall suddenly collapsed like melted butter, revealing a passage covered with barnacle-like mechanical structures behind it.
Just as Alliance Member Zou was about to step forward, he was dragged back by Chen Yao holding his tactical vest - the moment his shadow touched the ground, three tungsten steel barbs rubbed the tip of his nose and nailed into the ground.
"The barb arrangement is the molecular structure of Dow Pharmaceuticals." Analyst Yin suddenly raised the spectrometer, "but the rust on the tip of each barb..." His voice suddenly got stuck, and the screen of the instrument was jumping with a frequency band that was exactly the same as the blue light of a meat grinder.
Mou Xuan pressed the vibrating wall with one hand, and the dial-shaped time pattern rotated deep in his pupils.
When the sixth blue light came along the iron pipe, he suddenly pulled off Chen Yao's silver pendant and threw it into the air: "Close your eyes!"
In the silver mist that exploded from the pendant, time was like a torn film.
Chen Yao saw the barbed tracks turn into golden threads in the gap of time stop. Mou Xuan's military boots stepped on the solidified sound waves, pulling each team member away from the death angle.
When the cold sweat on the back of Lu Mengyuan's neck began to drip again, the eighteen barbs were already neatly stacked in the corner of the wall.
"The ventilation duct in the southwest corner." Mou Xuan wiped the blood from his nose, and the burn marks left on his retina made him squint. "Xu Jiuyou's mechanical prosthetic eye should still have the iris key of Tao's laboratory embedded in it."
As they stepped on the twitching corpses of guards on the ground, Chen Yao discovered that each guard had a miniature hourglass embedded in the back of his neck.
When Alliance Member Zou kicked over the third hourglass, the entire passage suddenly heard the roar of gears reversing.
Analyst Yin rushed to the control console, his ten fingers flying across the slime-covered operating screen: "The hourglass is a countdown bomb!"
"Don't touch the red button!" Chen Yao's scream and Mou Xuan's time stop were activated at the same time.
Analyst Yin's finger was only half a centimeter away from the button, and the handle of Mou Xuan's dagger had already smashed the operating screen.
In the flying glass shards, everyone saw the scene reflected in the fragments - at the celebration banquet three days ago, Xu Jiuyou was inserting a USB flash drive into the base of Zou Mengyuan's wine glass.
Member Lu immediately turned his gun towards his companions, but Member Zou took out the USB flash drive with trembling hands: "This is what Lao Xu said can block trackers..." The USB flash drive suddenly popped open automatically, revealing a miniature Dow badge flashing wildly inside.
Mou Xuan suddenly tore off his combat uniform, and the time mark on his chest flashed in sync with the badge.
When the blue light exploded for the seventh time, he crushed the badge with his bare hands, and the gushing golden liquid condensed into a diagram of the laboratory structure in the air.
Chen Yao suddenly poured nano silver liquid onto the structural projection, and the silver liquid actually corroded a hidden secret door along the light path.
"The boss is waiting for us." Mou Xuan wiped the blue blood that flowed from the corner of his mouth and pushed open the creaking iron door with the muzzle of his gun.
A cold mist with the smell of medicine seeped out from the crack in the door, and the humming sound of some sophisticated instrument was resonating with the hairs on the back of everyone's neck.
Chen Yao's silver pendant suddenly floated in mid-air, with the tip of the pendant pointing to a flickering coordinate deep in the fog.
When Mou Xuan's military boots crushed the first floor tile oozing with gold, the entire factory suddenly heard the sound of gears meshing one after another, as if thousands of Xu Jiuyou's mechanical prosthetic eyes were turning at the same time.
(Continuation)
Chen Yao's combat boots crushed the glass shards all over the ground, and nano-silver liquid was dripping along the cracks in the warehouse ceiling.
She suddenly squatted down and swept the tactical flashlight across the half-open safe in the shadow of the beam - three culture tubes with blue fluorescence were pulsating strangely in the gap between the cabinets.
"Look at this." Analyst Yin picked up the scattered experimental log with tweezers, and the holographic projection unfolded a dense genetic map in the air. "Their time tolerance in recombinant prions..."
Mou Xuan's pupils suddenly contracted.
The marks of time burned double images on his retina, and he saw the fragments of the experimental log three days later superimposed in front of him: proteins in the shape of the Tao badge were wrapped around the ends of all the gene chains.
"It's not a virus." Member Lu suddenly pointed the thermal imager at the culture tube. "The temperature of the tube wall is 17.3℃ lower than the room temperature, and the rust on the barbs before..."
Suddenly, the sound of gears clicking came from deep in the warehouse.
Member Zou kicked open the deformed iron cabinet at his feet, and twenty dormant freezers appeared like tombstones.
Each hatch was embedded with a miniature hourglass, and crimson liquid was dripping at different speeds.
"Don't touch it!" Chen Yao's silver pendant suddenly stretched into a horizontal line. "The flow rate of the hourglass is synchronized with the heartbeat." Before she finished her words, Mou Xuan had already torn open the sealing strip of the nearest hatch. Under the transparent hatch lay a man with silver catheters inserted all over his body, and the Tao brand on the back of his neck flickered with the flow rate of the hourglass.
Analyst Yin's spectrometer suddenly emitted a shrill beep: "These people are secreting time wave interferon!" He took a half step back in horror and knocked over the file boxes piled in the corner.
In the scattered X-rays, everyone saw that Xu Jiuyou’s mechanical prosthetic eye was embedded in the skull of a certain experimental subject.
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